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sâmbătă, 22 august 2015

Those Annoying Human Rights

The crowds of migrants which
invade European countries show in many faces that human being searched by many
European thinkers for discovering the human rights.

It was that human being who is
free from any political authority, who is defenseless, who struggles for its
survival.

Many past thinkers collect the
examples of that being from the savages met in colonial countries or from the
stories about feral children in order to determine which are the primary human
needs and rights.

Now, that human being is before
European eyes in the flesh. However, it is not an object of study, neither an
occasion to apply the respect for human rights, but a trouble for those
countries which claim to be founded on the principle of respecting the human
rights and on the principle of guaranteeing the chances for prosperity to every
individual.

Those allegations prove to be
wrong. The primeval human being they used seems to be an illusion. It was the
illusion of a man who cannot really act for modifying the political and
economical reality.

The significant change of society
supposed by the focus on the human needs and rights was tempered by a sort of
subjective emotional reactions concerning humans and animals.

Through the actual technological
devices, many people can feel strong emotions about a humanitarian case or
another. Such emotions are not caused by real people, but about their images
represented in the media, which are in fact as illusory as the images of
primeval human beings used by the past European thinkers. Moreover, the actual
images are more vivid than the past ones, so that their watchers consume much
of their sympathetic feelings only by watching them. The action for helping the
people in need is viewed as an annoying complication. Similarly, the new
migrants are considered by the political authorities annoying persons.

Therefore, the Europeans found
themselves again in the past condition of only thinking about primary needs and
rights of human beings. In the past, they thought of them and then they have
been able to destroy some authoritarian political regimes. It is far more
difficult to modify if not to destroy the great and convenient lie about human
rights and prosperity which allegedly founded the new democratic regimes.